Sean Monahan has been through a lot in his National Hockey League career.
The 27-year-old centre played with a severe hip injury throughout most of the 2020–21 season, ultimately undergoing surgery in May to correct the issue.
“If I bent down, my hip would lock and it would stay locked,” Monahan told Sportsnet’s Eric Francis in October. “It would take a few seconds to unlock. When you’re taking faceoffs throughout games and you bend down and it’s stuck, it sucks.”
Monahan has also dealt with multiple wrist injuries, a cracked thumb, and a pair of hernia surgeries throughout his career.